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...education of a more advanced character within the reach and the desires of the working people. The Union has opened a new world of interests to hundreds of people whose lives before were sordid and cramped. Even if the reflex good which comes to teachers were not considered, the labor spent on the Union is assuredly well directed...
...addressed the Prospect Union Wednesday night, will speak before the Cambridge Social Union this evening on "Socialism." Mr. Sanial, who is a graduate of the University of Paris, studied under Auguste Comte and is regarded as the foremost socialist of this country. He was president of the International Labor Congress at Brussels in 1891. The lecture will be given in the Social Union's rooms on Brattle Street, at 8 o'clock. All members of the University are invited to attend...
...Lucien Sanial, of New York (late President of the Brussels International Labor Congress, and Delegate of the New York Central Labor Federation to the Zurich Congress of 1893), will deliver an address on "History of Socialism in America," in Brattle Hall, this evening...
...religion of the Greeks and Romans was almost entirely free from introspection, self-abasement, and asceticism. Their attitude towards the gods was chiefly one of hilarious gratitude. In worship they offered among other things the time which naturally would be devoted to business; and the natural opposite of labor was enjoyment. So that, to a Roman, attendance upon a spectacle of any kind was an act of worship just as going to church is to a Christian. To have brought before us a spectacle, which was also a rite, in a form resembling that used by the Romans...
...working of the law of the conservation of energy, how no atom of matter, no particle of energy can ever be destroyed or lost, is it natural to suppose that in the spiritual world a spirit that has been developing for many years, that is the result of immeasurable labor and the effect of many influences can all be destroyed and blotted out of existence by the blow of a dagger? Is it not rather natural that what is so infinitely more valuable in the sight of God than the energy of the sun should be preserved...